[Coco] Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior

[S Klammer]

Just two cents (or perhaps a nickel as we no longer have pennies :) )...

I, with thanks, appreciate evolving/ongoing projects as much as the
archive/collection sites... sometimes stumbling upon these projects via
these same sites, or Google.  Although, as others have mentioned, sometimes
those projects have already been disbanded, for whatever their
rationalization - but I can play with a version and/or seek out the
original or newer releases.

"... I don't know where people are getting it", could just be some friend
who never bothered to upgrade.

I hope that this wasn't started from a support request. Humour attempt -
having to personally field queries as this would always illicit "take two
aspirin and call me in the morning".

sk
On 2014-05-26 7:10 PM, "Frank Pittel" <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:

> I have to admit I have very mixed feeling about this topic. There are a
> number of reasons for this.
>
> The first is that I think we all agree that having another archive site
> for coco related software is a good
> thing and should be encouraged. I also don't think there's much that can
> be done to stop things like DW and
> nitros-9 from being made available via a third party site.
>
> I do however understand Aaron's point and would like to make the following
> suggestions regarding actively maintained
> ( I don't think there's any need for doing anythings special for software
> no longer being maintained ):
>
> The first thought is to contact the developer of the software and discuss
> it. We're to small of a community for there
> to be hard feelings and the small size makes it not to difficult to work
> with the people writing the software.
>
> My second thought is to create a directory structure for currently
> maintained software which includes a link the the
> "official" site. At that point what get added to the archive is what the
> developer and the archive owner agree on. This could
> mean keeping older versions in the archive and letting people get the
> software from the primary site. The reason I think there's
> value to having a single place to get/find software for the coco
>
> I had a few other thoughts but managed to forget what they were while
> typing this up.
>
> The Other Frank
>
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